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[1] Design for a chimneypiece for the gallery, 1764, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/143
Purpose
[1] Design for a chimneypiece for the gallery, 1764, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with tapering pilaster stiles ornamented with drops of bows, urns, military trophies, bell flowers, and calyx, and surmounted by busts, with a frieze ornamented with bows, husks, military trophies, and urns, and with a figurative tablet, the whole surmounted by a mantel ornamented with rosettes, and arabesques, supporting volutes ornamented with rosettes, acanthus leaves, anthemia, and lions, and supporting birds, and a coronet, with a flier showing an alternative arrangement for the mantel, ornamented with anthemia, bows, and festoons, with urns, and enclosed rosettes in the capitals, and surmounted by three candelabra, and two volutes ornamented with rosettes, and acanthus leaves
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design for Furnishing the Top of the Gallery Chimneys / for the Earl of Thanet (in pen and underwritten in pencil) / Gallery Chimney Piece at the Earl of Thanets / in Grosvenor Square
Signed and dated
- 1764
1764
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (293 x 274) (flier 274 x 101)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson or James Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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